Introduction to Arduino: UNO R4 Minima

Arduino microcontroller tutorial, featuring a review of the new UNO R4 Minima board. Video also covers setting up the Arduino IDE, and writing and uploading sketches (which is what Arduino call programs).

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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:45 Unboxing & Specification
05:35 IDE & Board Core
09:13 Sketches (programs)
12:06 C++ Code
16:57 Maker Opportunities

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[bigmacsauceboss]

The laser focused, soothing, 80s-90s educational TV style is just perfect.

[millzee]

I used one as a solar charge controller and logger. It monitors battery voltage and charge current and via PWM regulates the charge current from a PV solar array. It also keeps a running total of produced amperes, watts and various highs and lows. It spits out the data over USB to a Raspberry Pi which is running Apache to display this data and provide other functionality.

[PeteC]

Saturday mornings, Techmoan, Sunday mornings, ExplainingComputers. What a time to be alive!

[RoboNuggie]

So many acronyms...this video positively oozes Nerdisms enough to satisfy even the most demanding SBC fans 🙂
Thank you Chris, this is like a breath of fresh air - a blast of things long past from a time when people weren't afraid to learn, and technology was exciting and new. You recreate that feeling with all your videos, and for that, I am more than happy to support all you do.

[Badgr]

I want to give you a compliment about your channel. It has a true 90's vibe and you always explain everything really good. Keep up the good work.

[VeryUsMumblings]

Glad to see that Arduino hasn't removed the barrel-jack power connector that allows people to dig through boxes of old Wall-socket adapters and possibly re-use them if they're somewhere between 5-24volts. 😀

[bcollinsks]

Thanks, Chris, for the excellent video! While I just use my mad-scientist lab for fun and play, I really enjoy the Arduino and PI videos, they give me ideas to play with. Technology has really come a long way. It used to be unthinkable to try to build with discrete components the things we can now build in an afternoon for fun and learning. I appreciate the time you spend researching these new offerings so I can just learn and play. Keep up the good work!

[marksterling]

Great to watch and lovely to see Stanley making a guest appearance

[andyking]

I was completely baffled by this because it was way above my head however, I still enjoyed watching this video along with many of your previous videos.

[brianwood]

I recently discovered Arduino's myself and I'm currently taking a course on Udemy to learn how it all works. I'm really enjoying it actually. I used to programme but using the sketch method is a little different and taking some getting used to. Thanks for sharing Chris.

[dougs_trains]

I see you getting really excited over this. Imagine this device being around 30 or430 years ago when we were mucking about doing this the hard way. I've just bought an Uno R4 Wifi, and have managed to get it running as a webserver and relay controller that I can control with a web browser on a phone etc. fun times. The motivation in getting it was to build a model railway turntable, using a stepper motor and indexed positions etc. which I'm sure to get onto once I've done playing around.

[AlanOxley-cr]

Superb introduction to the new Arduino Minima R4 board, the IDE, and even some C++ basics! Highly recommended to anyone new to Arduino or SBC's in general.

[suminshizzles]

That MCU name is a mouthfull and i am not surprised you did not say it.

[MichelMorinMontreal]

Now I understand better the enthusiasm of the Auduino user community; this platform seems to be particularly interesting and fun, both for beginners and for experienced programmers... The quality of the product is also very impressive. My personal interest over the last few years has focused on the Raspberry Pi, so thank you for this pertinent introduction! (By the way, the RPi seems to be arriving slowly but surely at distributors! Great news at last!)

[AndrewBorrill]

Good news, the addition of the RTC will make the Uno much more useable for real life projects. The original uno was really handicapped by this omission. It should have been provided in the first instance. Well done to get it there now.

[BagusSumanjaya]

every sunday evening always wait for the new video, thank you Mr. Barnatt

[robyn]

I recently got an Arduino Uno R3. I am planning to make a simple aquarium controller to ramp the lights on and off on a schedule and also to control a pump to automatically top off the water.

[jls]

Have a good rest of your weekend Christopher, and As Always, Be Smart and Stay Safe/Hydrated.

[kgwrq]

This is a fun and interesting video. I loved where you explained the applications for the unit, starting with the ducks in a park. I am retired from an IT career, but remembered enough about C to fully understand your C++ code walkthrough. Thanks for the memories on that.

[RAZR_Channel]

yo… Just checking in on you bud… I just fully committed to Linux on my desktop and remember about 5 years ago your video made it possible. At that time there was software I was unwilling to part with in Windows but I've decided to just run dual boot with linux as primary. Keep pushing man you're almost to 1 million subs… You can do it… I was actually just checking to see if you had surpassed it yet because you are close…